Thatcher had a galvanising effect on the environmental debate, and in greening mainstream politics. Jonathan Porritt, head of Friends of the Earth in the late 1980s, has argued that she “did ...

The 1980s, in some parts of Britain, did feel like a civil war. It was one that the Thatcher government had to win, and victory ended decades of national decline.

OFTEN remembered only as the era of the miners’ strike and Maggie Thatcher, one historian argues that the 1980s was actually a revolutionary decade which changed the way we lived for ever. In a ...

Though her government backed the creation of the single European market, which removed all barriers to trade, in the mid-1980s, Thatcher became increasingly hostile to further integration between ...

Margaret Thatcher, the iconic former British prime minister, died Monday at age 87 after suffering a stroke. Although she was a towering presence on the world stage in the 1980s, often standing ...

Margaret Thatcher feared she had "wasted" her first year as prime minister, newly released private papers suggest. The letters and confidential briefing notes, from 1980, reveal the personal ...

Margaret Thatcher feared she had "wasted" her first year as prime minister, newly released private papers suggest. The letters and confidential briefing notes, from 1980, reveal the personal ...

Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around—decisively—the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw ...

(AP) - Combative and determined to get her way, Margaret Thatcher divided opinion down the middle in life _ and in death.

Thatcher’s miracle? That’s not how I remember the 1980s As Lucy Robinson’s new study reveals, this decade divided Britain like no other – and pop culture flourished amid the chaos ...